Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+)

Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+)

Subject: Governance

Context: Recently, the Union Education Minister has released the Report on Unified Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) 2019-20 for School Education in India.

Concept:

What is UDISE+?

• It is Unified Information System for Education Plus for School Education.
• It has been developed by Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL) and introduced with reference year 2018-19.
• It is hosted in the server of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in order to eliminate the problems related to coordination, supervision, monitoring and security.
• It is one of the largest Management Information Systems on School Education initiated in in 2012-13 integrating DISE for elementary and secondary education.
• It is a much improved version compared to the offline U-DISE application such as:
• A centralized module has been developed for generating UDISE codes for all States/UTs;
• Real time checking and rectification/ revision of school details;
• Data Capture of UDISE+ DCF through various User Friendly Application User Interfaces from School/CRC/Block level with School Data Certification;
• Data certification from all level of users, starting from the principal/ teacher-in-charge of the school, followed by concerned State/UT officers; and
• Data Visualization Dashboard to visually present various key performance indicators (KPI) and metrics of School Education.